The Avengers

It might be news, it might not: I’ve been in a bubble for a week. Have we started any new wars?

Doctor Who

• It’s probably not going to be cancelled. There’s even an official statement. Who’d have thunk it?
• The Family of Blood got 6.6 million viewers
• Series four’s writers announced. Steven Moffat has a two-parter: yey!

Film

• Paul WS Anderson takes over from John Woo on Spy Hunter
• Iron Man talk
• Kevin Bacon joins the cast of Frost/Nixon
• Edgar Wright to do live commentary on Hot Fuzz at the Prince Charles Cinema on June 10
• Bruce Willis takes one look at the money and says, “Yes! I will do a fifth Die Hard!”

Theatre

• Rhea Perlman joins the West End cast of Boeing-Boeing

British TV

• Kim Cattrall to play Daniel Radcliffe’s mum in a World War I ITV1 drama. I thought Rupert Grint was supposed to be ITV’s saviour?
• Which of the forthcoming new US shows are the British networks interested in: news from the LA screenings
• Reality TV: the US has a show about pirates, we get one about local planning offices

Polish TV

• Now the Teletubbies are making Polish kids gay

US TV

• Angel co-creator David Greenwalt is to helm CBS’s forthcoming Moonlight. That’s the one about the vampire detective. Anyone else getting déjà vu?
• A trailer and official site for the new Babylon 5 movie
• William Friedkin reunites with William Petersen to direct an episode of CSI
• BSG really definitely will end after season four
• The Bionic Woman will suck: it’s just been approved by the Family Friendly Programming Forum. Odd what passes for family friendly these days, though, isn’t it?
• NBC to get a remake of the Beeb’s Spoons
• The remake of The Thick of It might find a home on NBC
• Dania Ramirez from The Sopranos joins Heroes
• Tina Fey says Alec Baldwin wants to stay on 30 Rock. He hasn’t been forced. Honest
• Jeremy Sisto joins Law and Order
• Jericho really isn’t coming back
• Posh and Beck’s reality TV show may end up just an hour long
• The Wire‘s David Simon and Ed Burns’ Iraq mini-series gets a cast